Time - How is it for you? | ADHD Information

Time is weird for me when my ADD is in full force. (Not on meds or helped by my exercises.)

I am late all the time, I don't realize time is going by.

My dad used to tell me that I was as slow as molasses in January. I guess that I seemed in slow motion to him. I know he didn't mean in my mind, because I always got great grades in school. And maybe I knew my mind was in high gear, just the rest of me is in slow motion.

But I have always struggled with time. I never quite grasped how fast it was passing. Before I realized it, it was time to move on.

How is it for you?

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Thanks!

time is definitely weird for me....

time warp in different world. that's it in a nutshell.

i used to be late all the time now i tend to be on time or have forgotten completely which means i won't be turning up at all.

actually that's not entirely true --- sometimes i remember about twenty minutes after i am supposed to be somewhere that i should be there (why is my memory like that? why not remember twenty minutes before huh?????? - oh i guess it does that a lot in fact or i would never get anywhere ever on time) and then i'll rush like crazy to get there.

my watch is also ten minutes fast which is great. because it tricks my brain too. i forget it is ten minutes fast and then have extra time or am not so late as i thought i was....

warped and from a different planet.
Perhaps we could simplify things by only having past, present , and future
or even just then and now?

Time is a confusing concept . It's kinda like
If I'm talking to you, then, I am me and you are you, but - If you are talking to me, then you are I and I am you.

Tomorrow, today will be the past - Time flies by so very fast
Yet there is still so far to go cause time goes by so very slow.

How 'bout we forget the past & the future and just live in the present.?

I have no concept of time. I'm always apologizing to someone for being late. Sometimes I really truly think only 5 minutes have passed when it's actually been an hour. I have no clue.

It's a time warp for me, with touches of some of the other choices. Either I have absolutely no sense of time passing by or I can't seem to move in spite of the fact that I know time is passing by or I think something I'm doing is taking 5 minutes, when in actuality, it's taking me 30 minutes to do.

It's worse for me in the morning. I can't quite get my brain firing on all cylinders until about noon, so I am constantly about 15 to 30 minutes late to work. We have a 5 minute grace period, so you may understand why they are on my ass all the time.

The time thing really, really sucks. My bosses are NEVER on time in the morning, or for any meeting, and will miss meetings without a care or apology, but by God, I'd better not keep them waiting, or there will be hell to pay! I work in an office where we don't have to man phones or any other time-sensitive duties, and our days are not very structured at all. Why they are such sticklers about the time employees arrive to work is beyond me.

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It's weird because w/o ADhD meds time goes so fast I am always late. With meds, sometimes it seems like everything goes really slowly because I catch on to everything & I feel a few steps ahead of the game.

I voted twice.

I like balance.

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I'm warped in time.

For dinner, I hope...

Seeker 63,

Waiting causes the clock to slow down. Indeed, and therein lies torture. The big "B" word. Boredom!! This rarely ever happens to me in any real since because mostly I'm in control. I will do anything and five things at once not to be bored.

That was a toss up. Time passes too quickly but it also passes before I even realize it.

chjones,

Thanks for your welcome and comment on the BipolarDisorder post. Of coarse we are speaking of time currently and it's never too late to say thanks. Also, I appreciate how you view time. Interesting.

ADHD seems to be about surviving and with time seeming to be our enemy we need to look outside the box. I just missed an very impoortant dr. appointment today. Three hours ago the bedroom was my destiny but apparently where I'm at is where I'm suppose to be.

Countrygirl I can appreciate confusing.

like i always say- the faster i move, the faster the clock moves.

adversely- waiting causes the clock to slow down. 30 seconds can be forever.

ha - now we know why einstein came up with the 'time is all relative' theory or whatever it was exactly. he was just an ADDer with time-management problems.....

I think time passes way too quickly - in terms of days and weeks and years. I can't believe it's almost november already! so, when I look back, I think Holy Cr*p! where did the time go? Did I achieve everything I wanted to in that time frame - NO WAY!!!

But, on a daily basis - my lord, the day drags - maybe that's only when I'm at work tho and trying to figure out how to get things done that need doing or how to make up for the fact that I didn't do those things.

Lastly, (other than projects) I don't have the lateness issue when it comes to getting myself somewhere. I am always the early bird. If you tell me to be somewhere, I will inevitably be there at least 15 minutes early. I guess it's because I have this sense of impending doom - like, will there be too much traffic that will hinder me from getting there. Isn't that doom thing an ADDer trait too?

Where's the 'Time is malleable like rubbery pizza cheese' option?